2013. Costly mistakes have externalities: they transfer tuition waivers from high- to low-socioeconomic status students …, and increase the number of students attending college. To shed light on the mechanisms underlying mistakes, we exploit a …

We use admission lotteries for higher education studies in the Netherlands to investigate whether someone's field of …

The provision of non-pecuniary incentives in education is a topic that has received much scholarly attention lately … that relative grading, by creating a rank-order tournament in the classroom, provides stronger incentives for male students … than absolute grading. In the full sample, we find weak support for our hypothesis. Among the more motivated students we …

-secondary education in the Netherlands. We apply a multinomial logit framework to individual data on post-secondary education choices …. First, we include information regarding the geographical accessibility of the higher education system. Second, we allow the … confirm the paramount influence of the student’s track record and talent. The results, however, also show that geographical …

We study the effect of an Iranian educational policy implemented in 2012 that restricted access to higher education for …

Recent studies for primary and secondary education find positive effects of the share of girls in the classroom on … achievement of boys and girls. This study examines whether these results can be extrapolated to post-secondary education. We … conduct an experiment in which the shares of girls in workgroups for first year students in economics and business are …